10/15/2017

I recently awakened with a distinct, internal conviction that God has given us a key to America’s future. As I
thought on this, I instinctively knew that the key to America’s future is a
recovery of America’s past, for as George Orwell said, “Whoever controls the
past, controls the future.”

The anti-Christian forces
in America have been very busy taking control of America’s past and purging
everything Christian from her founding and history. School children and college
students are now taught that those first immigrants to America came for
adventure and gold and that her founders were a bunch of wealthy, Deistic
slave owners who were seeking more power.

These historical
revisionists have known exactly what they were doing, for as Alexander
Solzhenitsyn said, “To destroy a people you must first sever their roots.”

Robbed of its Christian
heritage, America’s populace seems vulnerable, as never before, to being shaped
into an amoral, secularist society. We have reached the place of which Karl
Marx spoke, when he said, “People without a heritage are easily persuaded.”

If we are going to take
control of America’s future, we must use the key and take control of her past.
We must restore her true heritage as a nation birthed out of great, spiritual
awakening.

I was drawn into this in
2010 at a time when I had
given up hope of America ever seeing another national, spiritual awakening. I was surprised by the Holy Spirit that day and for
several hours my heart and mind were flooded with thoughts of hope and faith
that America "could" see another great, spiritual awakening that would stem the
tide of secularism, immorality and false religion that is flooding our land.

The other thing with
which the Holy Spirit surprised me that day was the understanding that there
was a direct link between the First Great Awakening and the founding of
America. I had researched and written about the Great Awakening, but for the
first time I saw that it had a direct bearing on the founding of this nation.

I knew instinctively that
I was to put in writing what I was seeing. So, after more research and writing,
my book, Pilgrims and Patriots, came
into existence. Pat Robertson read the manuscript and called it “a must read!”

I have since created a
PowerPoint presentation from the book that I call “Revive America.” In it I
show how America was birthed out of great spiritual awakening and I call those
present to begin praying for another such Awakening to rock our land.

This is the key to
America’s future. We must take control of our past if we are to have any hope
of taking control of our future for the next generation.

I am ready to take this
message across America. If you would like to discuss hosting a “Revive America”
event in your church or city, send me an email at dreddiehyatt@gmail.com.

A recent "Revive America" Event at Christ for the Nations Institute in Dallas, Texas

10/07/2017

NBC stalwart, Chuck Todd, recently went on a rant against the
idea that our rights as American citizens come from God. He played a recording
of Judge Roy Moore, the Republican nominee for senator from Alabama, in which
Moore declared, “Our rights don’t come from government; they don’t come from
the Bill of Rights; they come from Almighty God.”

Todd
appeared flabbergasted at such an “ominous” idea and suggested that Judge
Moore, “Doesn’t appear to believe in the Constitution as it’s written.” Todd
obviously does not understand that the idea of God as the Source of our rights
comes directly from the Declaration of Independence. But what is disconcerting
is that he describes those who think this way as dangerous and almost
un-American.

But
if our rights do not come from God, from whence do they come? A king? A pope?
The news media? Whoever happens to hold governmental power at a given time?
Some might answer, "the democratic majority." History, however, has
shown that without transcendent moral restraints the majority can become a mob
that runs roughshod over the rights of those in the minority.

This
is why the book, Pilgrims and
Patriots, is so vital at this time in our nation’s history. It
is why “Revive America”
events are so important for they have the potential to unleash
another Great Awakening that turns this nation back to God.

Here
is a quote from page 130 of Pilgrims and
Patriots concerning the Founders' view on this matter of the
Source of our rights.

“Jefferson,
Franklin and the other Founders saw human rights as having a transcendent
source, that being, God Himself. They and their forebears had suffered the loss
of their rights, and their being given or taken at the whim of a monarch, pope
or bishop. In this new nation, they were determined to fix them in a place
beyond human reach. Government, they insisted, did not exist to give or take
away rights, but to protect those rights already given by God."

10/04/2017

October
31, 2017 will mark the 500-year anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95
Theses to the Wittenberg church door and igniting the Protestant Reformation.
Luther, a Catholic priest and University professor, was challenging his
church’s practice of selling indulgences that offered forgiveness of sins and
freedom from purgatory, all for a price.

From there, Luther
went on to challenge papal authority and the sacramental system of the Catholic
Church with his teachings on justification by faith, the priesthood of all
believers and the ultimate authority of Scripture. Ordered by the Roman Church
hierarchy to stop teaching these doctrines, Luther decided that he could not
sacrifice truth for a superficial unity.

Luther’s
Bold Stand for Freedom

He was, therefore,
ordered to appear before a tribunal of cardinals, bishops and the Roman
Emperor. Held in the city of Worms, it was known as the Diet of Worms. Standing
alone before this imposing body of religious and civil authorities, Luther was
ordered to recant his teachings or suffer excommunication, which could also
mean death.

Luther told this
court that he was willing to recant but only if he could be convinced by reason
and the Scriptures that he was in error. The Roman hierarchy, however, was not
in the habit of “reasoning” with those who challenged their authority, and they
demanded that Luther admit his error there on the spot.

In his famous
reply, which struck a blow for individual freedom and religious liberty, Luther refused to back down even though he knew his very life was at stake. He boldly
concluded his defense of freedom with these words.

I consider myself convicted by the testimony of
Holy Scripture, which is my basis. My conscience is captive to the Word of God.
Thus I cannot and will not recant anything, because acting against one's conscience
is neither safe nor sound. Here I stand! God help me! I can do no other! Amen!

The
Radical Reformers

Luther, however,
was a man of his times and in later life, physically ill and frustrated with
the multitude of hindrances to the Reformation, he advocated the use of force
in dealing with those he considered enemies of the Gospel, which included
Catholics, Muslims, Jews and Anabaptists.

It was the more
radical, pacifist groups of the Reformation—the Anabaptists, Separatist
Puritans and Quakers--who took Luther’s early stance on freedom of conscience
and religious liberty to its logical conclusion and applied it to all areas of
life, even when it meant suffering and death.

Like the early Luther, these
groups considered the ideal of individual freedom and religious liberty to be tied to
their Christian faith. This is clearly borne out in the opening statement of the Constitution of “The New
England Confederation,” formed in 1643, which reads,

Whereas we all came into these parts of
America with one and the same end and aim, namely to advance the kingdom of our
Lord Jesus Christ and enjoy the Liberties of the Gospel in purity and peace (Hyatt, Pilgrims and Patriots, 52-53).

Yes, it was these
so-called “radical” Reformation groups, the Separatist Puritans, the Baptists
and the Quakers, that brought Luther’s original ideas of freedom of conscience and
religious liberty to the New World and further developed them on American soil.
This is what historian, Benjamin Hart, was referring to when he wrote,

It was Protestants of the most radical
stripe, most zealous in their religious convictions (those whom the America
Civil Liberties Union would like to see outlawed from the public discourse) who
were in fact the greatest proponents of religious liberty as codified in
America’s governing charter 200 years later (Hyatt, Pilgrims and Patriots, 66-67).

These
American Liberties are Under Attack

Today those
radical ideas of individual freedom and religious liberty, on which our nation
was founded, are under attack. Christian bakers, florists and other Christian artisans are being told
they "must" provide their services to same-sex weddings, irrespective of the fact
that it violates their conscience and sincerely held religious beliefs. This is
un-American!

Christians are being
told they have no right to make their views known in public. Senators Diane
Feinstein and Bernie Sanders have recently challenged the fitness of judicial and cabinet nominees to serve because of their open Christian testimony. A recent “chilling study” revealed
that a majority of college students believe it is OK to disrupt and shout down
a [Christian] speaker with whom they disagree. This is un-American!

Yes, it is time
for Christians in America to take a cue from Luther and once again make a stand
for individual freedom of conscience and religious liberty. Like Luther we must
be fully convinced by the word of God that ours is the true and righteous position.
And then, we must not waver.

A Time for Truth and
Boldness

“Remember George, this is no time to go
wobbly,”Margaret Thatcher is reported to have said
to George H.W. Bush as he mulled over what to do in response to Saddam
Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August of 1990. This is an appropriate word for
American Christians in 2017 when the ideals that made America and the Western
World are under attack.

Yes, this is no
time for Christians in America to go wobbly. We must, like Luther, take a stand
for individual freedom and religious liberty. If we don’t take this stand, this
unique liberty, that has been enjoyed by generations of Americans, will be lost
to the next generation. It is that serious.

But if we take
this stand in the spirit of Christ, we can count on the Holy Spirit to empower
us afresh with another Great Awakening and these freedoms will be preserved for
coming generations. Just look at how far-reaching was Luther’s uncompromising
stand that day. It changed the Western World and provided an ideal for the
founding of the United States of America.

This article was derived from Dr. Eddie Hyatt's book, Pilgrims and Patriots, available from Amazon and his website at www.eddiehyatt.com. Dr. Hyatt presents "Revive America" events in which he documents how America was birthed out of a Great Spiritual Awakening and shows why he believes another Great Awakening is immanent. He can be contacted at dreddiehyatt@gmail.com

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In 2010 Dr. Eddie Hyatt experienced a visitation from God lasting some 7-8 hours in which he was assured that America "could" see another Great Spiritual Awakening that would alter the course of the nation. Out of that experiecne came the book, "Pilgrims and Patriots," that Pat Robertson called " a must-read." From the book, Dr. Hyatt developed a PowerPoint presentation entitled "America Reawaekning," that in 3 sessions, documents how this nation was birthed out of prayer and spiritual awakening. If you would like to sceudule one of these events, you can email him at dreddiehyatt@gmail.com.